Underwhelmed. I liked the concept and setting but I zoned out while trying to finish this book and felt uninterested in the evolution of the actual story.

Thank you for this book, but I could not get into it. I will not leave a bad review online.

This has an interesting premise but it's slow. I liked the atmospheric Sydney setting. Sometimes In these situations, the writing can carry me through but this time the prose is florid and I think the book would have benefited from a strong edit. I recognize that this is a reissue and thank Netgalley for the ARC,

The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay tells the story of three generations of men intertwined by location and a bridge that touches all their lives. There is Dawes, an astronomer during the British rule of Australia, Ted a construction worker on the Sydney bridge in the 1930's, and Dan a modern day banker Australian expat living in London.

This book takes a look at the building of a bridge and a man who fell from the Clouds and survived. This man touches each of the three men's lives in different ways.

I liked the way this book paints a picture of the bridge as well as the lives of these three men and how they are intertwined. I found that this book could be a little slow if you are used to fast paced books this one may not be for you. I personally liked the development and thought it waa paced well.

I would recommend this book to fans of multiple storylines and Ashley Hay.

I acknowledge that I recieved this book free of charge from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest and unbiased review of it.

For a novel that included so much praise from authors and other literary publications I was expecting much more. I love the idea but it seems like the author feel short on the execution. It seems like the author tried to make the insignificant significant to such a degree it felt contrived and unbelievable.